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H. M. Hodge, examiner of public instruction and loan agent, Batesville. The history of every community is made up, so far as its more interesting features are concerned, of the events and transactions of the lives of its prominent, representative citizens. In any worthy history of Independence County, an outline of the career of the subject of the present sketch should not fail to be given, together with a sketch of his family. His parents, Louis and Willie (Cavenar) Hodge, are natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Tennessee. They are still living in the latter State, and are happy and comfortable in their declining years. H. M. Hodge owes his nativity to Marshall County, Tenn., where his birth occurred March 13, 1849. He received his education at the Morrisville Male and Female College, at Marshall, graduating from the same in 1869, and subsequently became a teacher in that institution. One year later he went to Western Tennessee, and here wielded the ferrule for four years. In 1875 he came to Independence County, Ark., and here continued his former occupation for several years. In 1885 he turned his attention to the manganese mines, and was very successful in this. He had charge of the Keystone mines for one year, and was one of the first men employed. He was also acting collector. He now owns a mining interest in Izard County, and property in Batesville. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Fannie Benton, and both he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In April, 1889, he received his appointment as public instructor. Mr. Hodge is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member of the K. of H.